Autographic register.



110.8862015. PATENTED APR 28, 1908. T. P. SCHIRMER n M. C. STERN.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER. APPLIUATIOH FILED DB0. 11. 1905.

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T. F. SGHIRMER & M. G.

AUTOGRAPHIG REGSTER.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 11,1905. l

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rHEoDoR r, soHIaMER AND MILTON o. sTEaN, or DAYTON, omdnssIeNons'To THEEGRY AUTOGRAPHIO REGISTER COMPANY, ornAYfroN, OHIO, A CQRPORATION OF OHIO.

-AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

Specification Gif-Letters Patent.

Patented apra 2s, 190s.

Application filed December 11, 1905. Sedl No.'291,361.

y which the following a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speciiication.

Our invention relates. to improvements in autographic registers for making duplicate copies of bills, sales checks and the like, in which a money till or cash drawer compartment is employed with connecting mechanism intermediate the money till andfeeding mechanism for the register whereby the opening of the money till will aotuate the register, and the invention consists of that certain novel construction and arrangement of'parts to `be hereinafter particularly point ed out and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of our im roved register with the cash drawer open. `ig. is a sectional side ele vation taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. is an end elevation of the register with the end casing removedy Fig. 4 is a sectional side elevation of the register taken on the lines 1--4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a detail section of the driving mechanism for the feed roller, taken on lines .55 of Fig. 31 `Fig. is a detail cross section of one of the paper rolls,

Ishowing the tension device, taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 4.

- 1 is a suitable casing to form a compartment for the receptionof the cash drawer 2, and upon which casing is mounted in any suitable way the autographic register 3. 'Ihe cash. drawer or money till can be of any of the well known constructions, but in the form. illustrated, the cash drawer is arranged to slide in and out of the casing and when released is propelled into position by the springs 4, whichare arranged in thc space at each side of the drawer, one end attached to the inner end of the drawer, and the other end attached to the casing the front, so that the springs are under tension when the r"drawer is closed, and locked bythe lever y"pivoted to the top of the casing and provided with a `push button 6 at its outer end and with its inner end 7 arranged to catch behind a lug or partition 8 on the cash drawer to hold the drawer locked, a spring 9 normally holding the locking lever down at its inner end. The under surface of the catch is beveled to allow the partition orlug 8 to raise the catch when the drawer is pushed into the casing.

The autographic register itself canbe constructed ,in any of the well known ways arid embodies in its General plan a compartment for holding a p urality of strips or rolls of paper, ,a writing tablet and feeding mechanism for feeding the strips over the writing surface. In the construction we have illustrated, in the drawings, in order to describe one of the many embodiments of our invention, the register comprises a casing with side walls 10, 10, a -front end 1I, to which is hinged the'coverplate 12 for convenient ac cess to the paper supply compartment, `and a rear end 13 which is also hinged to the base for convenient access to the feed mechanism.

14 is the writing tablet supported on the' side walls of the casing, the cover plate .l2 being out away'at 15 to allow access tocne tablet. n

In the construction illustrated, the paper strips are mounted on rolls 16, 16, which are journaled in pins or rods 17 passing through the casing from side to side,.while to maintain a proper tension on the rolls, we provide the springs 18, one for each roll, one end of each spring is secured to the casing, and the other end is provided with a set screw 19- 22 is another roll of paper, 'the istrip from which is passed over` the lower end of the writing tablet between the feed rolls 24, 25, and thence on to a storage roll 26. 27 is a receptacle at the side of the casing for hold-l ing the carbon paper which is laid 'between the strips yof paper on the writing tablet for making the transfers, the web from the roll 22 being fed only a short distance with each operation of the niainfeed, as will be hereinsales slip feed roller 25, the

after described, so that this strip is only intended to receive the totals of the sale checks. The feed rollers 20, 21 are mounted on shafts in the casing, and are driven by intermeshing gears 28, 29 mounted on one end of the feed roller shafts .-j ust within the casi wall. The shaft of the feed roller 21 also carries the iinion 30, which meshes with the gear 31 loosely mounted on the stub axle 32. Secured to or integral with this gear 31 is the ratchet plate 33 providedwith two teeth 34, 34 on opposite sides of the periphery, which teeth are engaged by the pawls 35, 35 carried by the plate 36 to which plate is secured the pinion 37, the 'pawl carrier and pinion being mounted on the stub axle 32.

39 is a segment gear mounted on a rock shaft 40 jcurnaled 1n the case and meshing with the pinion 37, and this segment gear carries the arm 4,1which passes down through a slot in the top of the money compartment easing and is cou led to a pin 42 in the side 'of the drawer 2, t e pin riding in a slot 43 in the lower end of the'arm 41.

It will. be evident from this construction that when the drawer 2 is pro elled from the case by the springs 4, when t e push lever 5 is depressed, that the segment gear 39 will be rocked to drive the pimdn 37 and pawl carrier plate 36. The parts are so adjusted that when the drawer is closed the pawls 35 will be in engagement with the teeth of the ratchet plate 33 and the train of gears to the feed rollers are so proportioned that the com lete throw of the drawer will actuate the eed rollers to deliver the proper length of sales cheeks or stri s of aper over the writing tablet. It wi valso e evident that irl-closing, the drawer, should it accidentally or for any other reason not be pushed in far enough to be locked by the catch 7 and the springs throw the drawer out, that the pawls 35 will not engage vthe ratchet plate and therefore the feed mechanism of the register will not be actuated. The drawer must be pushed in and locked before the clutch connecting mechanism intermediate the drawer and feeding mechanism of the register can be brought into e'ngagement. It will also be understood that while we have illustrated a pawl and ratchet clutch, other clutch constructions could be readily substituted without departing from the spirit of our invention.

For driving the feed mechanism and storing in the case, the total sales paper strip, we provide as follows: 44 is a pinion on the opposite end of the shaft of feed roller 29 which meshes withan idler 45, which in turn meshes with the gear 46 on the shaft of total Gearing being so proportioned that the totaxl throw of the main feed will only advance feed roller 25 a short distance. The storage roll 26 for this total sales slip has frictionally mounted thereon, so that the roll can slip, a gear 47 which is driven by the intermediate gear 4S in mesh with the feed roller gear 2S), so that whatever ortion of. the total sales slip is fed through tfie rollers-24, 25 will be wound up and stored on the roll 26 to which convenient access may be had from time to time by opening the end 13 of the casi lt will be evident from what has alrea y been said that it is not our desire to be limited in the novel features of our present invention to the particular kind of total sales slips register which we have illustrated and described and that the novel features to be recited in the claims will be equally applicable to any of the well known constructions of autogra hic registers.

aving thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In an autographic register, the combination with paper strips and a writin tablet over which the aper is propelle with mechanism for feedging the paper, of a money till, and means for opening said till, with connecting mechanism intermediate said till and feeding mechanism for the paper, with means to prevent the operation of said connectin mechanism until the till is completelyfclose 2. In an autographic register, the combinat-ion with )aper strips and a writing tablet over which the paper is propelled, with mechanism for feeding the paper, of a cash drawer, and spring for opening same, with connecting mechanism intermediate said drawer and feeding mechanism for the paper, with means to prevent the operation of said connecting mechanism until the drawer is completely closed.

3. In an autographic register, the combination with aper strips and a writing tablet over which t 1e paper is propelled with meehanism for feeding the paper, of a money till, and means for opening said till, with connecting mechanism intermediate said till and feeding mechanism for the paper, and a clutch for throwing said connecting'. mechanism into operation disengaged until the till is closed. i

4. In an autographic register, the combination with aper strips and a writing tablet over which tlie paper is propelled with mechanism for feeding the paper, of a money till, and means for openingsald till, with connecting mechanism intermediate said till and feeding mechanism for the paper, and a pawl and ratchet clutch for throwing said connecting mechanism into operation disengaged until the till is closed.

5. In an autographic register, feed rollers for 'the )aper strips, gearing for driving same, a clutc for actuating said gearing, with cash drawer, and lever intermediate said drawer and clutch, end mesms 4for throwinv for throwing said clutch into operation insmd clutch uit@ operatlon, moperatlve until ,operative untll the drawer 1s closed.

the drawer is closed, THEODOR F SCHIRMFR ln an autographic register, feed rollers Mirow C STERY J' i for the paper strips, gearing for driving same, l l `L n pewl und ratchet Clutch for actuating said Witnesses: gearing, with cash drawer, and lever inter- LEOPOLD RAUH,

mediate said drawer and clutch, and means LEE J. HILL. 

